[23], In November 2019, it was announced that Jacinto would have a main role on the Netflix horror drama miniseries Brand New Cherry Flavor. Its probably not a surprise that it was Eleanor that was the first to discover that what everyone had thought was the Good Place was in fact the Bad Place. For more behind-the-scenes stories and details from this NBC series, listen to the 50+ episodes of "The Good Place: The Podcast" here (or wherever you get your podcasts). The romance between Jason and Janet is one of the most touching aspects of the entire show. ", Shepard plays a sleazy demon attending a party in the Bad Place, and tells Bell's character, Eleanor, "You got that good stank.". ( m. 2010) . [17], In 2016, Jacinto was cast as Jianyu Li / Jason Mendoza in the NBC comedy The Good Place. In an act of revenge, he and Pillboi toss a Molotov at one of Acid Cat's boats and run. Jason Mendoza was mistaken for Jianyu Li, a Taiwanese monk. When the viewer first meets Jason, their perspective on him is filtered through Eleanor (since shes the focal point of the narrative to start with). Everything Is Fine. Needless to say, I strongly disagree and Id be happy to explain why if anyones interested. Eleanor, Chidi, Michael, and Janet on "The Good Place" series finale. Production Janet (Girlfriend/Wife during first afterlife) Tahani Al-Jamil (Ex Girlfriend/Ex Filtration/Ex-Platonic Wife) The big reveal on season one was that the human characters were secretly being tortured by demons in the Bad Place. At that time she, along with the other humans, is under the impression that Jason isnt a dunce from Florida but is, instead, a monk named Jianyu. While Jason certainly deserves some props for being loyal to a man who clearly didnt feel the same thing for him, it also defies logic and good sense for him to continue. alongside Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael. At the same time, a cynical viewer might be inclined to point out that this optimism probably stems more from Jasons lack of intellectual sophistication than it does from any sophisticated philosophical position. Residence key assistant location manager (8 episodes, 2018) On "Chapter Two: Dance Dance Resolution," the humans discover that they've gone to Mindy St. Claire's house in the Medium Place multiple times across Michael's reboots, and they've kept a log of all of their plans to upend him. Donkey Doug (father) Mrs. Mendoza (mother) Kamilah Al-Jamil(ex-sister-in-law) Manisha Al-Jamil (ex-mother-in-law) Waqas Al-Jamil (ex-father-in-law) [23] They married on July 31, 2010. Actor: The Good Place. Simultaneously, Chidi and Eleanor overhear some of the demons talking about how they're in the Bad Place, tell Tahani and try to formulate a tactic to somehow fight Michael. Rather than getting an actual job, he preferred relying on his amateur DJ'ing skills and would resort to robbery, theft, and even scams if it meant making quick money. Other things in the void included a literal dumpster fire, and of course the computer perched at a standing desk. [10][13][14], While interning, Jacinto participated in hip-hop dance competitions[15] before deciding on acting as a career. West III earned a PhD in film and screen studies from Syracuse University in 2018. Michael considers everything that happened in his life to be stupid. When Team Cockroach arrives at the Good Place, a party is designed to perfectly suit their desires. After Michael saving Jason from suffocation in the safe, he tries to change, focusing more on his dance troupe, and forbidding them from committing crimes. While not a violent person, he believed every problem could be solved by throwing a Molotov because throwing the molotov replace any previous problems with a new problem. She went on to make appearances in several television series, including Inside Amy Schumer (2015), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2016), and Veep (2017). During his mortal life on Earth, Michael adopts a dog which he calls Jason. Human Steve Carrell's wife, Nancy Carrell, played Michael Scott's realtor and short-time girlfriend, Carol, in "The Office," while Amy Poehler's former husband, Will Arnett, played quirky MRI technician Dave in "Parks and Recreation. These details, and many more we've rounded up here, were revealed on the weekly episodes of "The Good Place: The Podcast. Most notably, he seems to have an absolute obsession with both Blake Bortles and molotov cocktails. At the end of Season 3, Jason and the rest of the humans travel to The Medium Place for a new four-human experiment. However, its important to remember that there was even a time when Jason-poor, dim-bulb Jason-who actually figured it out first. ", Episode: "Bugs Keith in: I Can't Call Heaven, Doug", Episode: Scare Tactics/The Bad Boy Bobby Daniels, Best Supporting Actress in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series, Comedy, Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production, This page was last edited on 1 May 2023, at 17:42. "And so I really saw her like that, as this person who lives in the sky.". When Donkey Doug was going to move away and leave his dance crew, Jason and the rest of the dance crew framed the woman he was going to leave with for a crime so that he had to stay since Doug was their "best pop-and-locker". Warning: Spoilers ahead for all four seasons of NBC's "The Good Place.". Once he died and arrived in Michael's neighborhood, he was forced to take on the role of Jianyu, a silent monk. Michael calls the little critter the "neednoggle," a small ode to Niednagel that would sound like a random word to anyone watching who didn't know about the man behind the VFX. First seen In a scene where Eleanor, Jason, and Tahani hand in philosophy essays to Chidi, their papers have actually been written out. Jason is really no help. Jason finally starts talking about who he is and Tahani's disappointed. Apparently "The Good Place" Cast Could Barely Get Through A Scene With Jason Without Laughing. Jason, thinking Michael is Janet's Dad, confesses his real identity to Michael. before running through the door and ending his existence in the universe. [1] She added an apostrophe to the spelling of her name when she was in junior high to emulate D'arcy Wretzky of the band The Smashing Pumpkins. He gives him a teal collar, which is the color of the Jacksonville Jaguars. [4][9] He became frustrated by the lack of other Asian actors in Vancouver and moved to Los Angeles. Keep reading for the best details from all four seasons of "The Good Place" that you might not have noticed. Every time that Jason manages to get something right during the course of the show, everyone seems impressed with what hes accomplished. So much so that NBC produced a weekly podcast show bringing us behind-the-scenes stories for every episode. Birthday Jason Mendoza is a principal character in The Good Place, played by Manny Jacinto. She earned a nomination for a Primetime . While he has a hard time connecting emotionally, Jason is capable of unconditional love. Perhaps this is because hes too dim-witted to really be malicious. [10][12], He earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of British Columbia. As the old saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day, and the same goes for Jason. Jason Carden. Jason Mantzoukas. Hair He begins to feel complete, but tries to brush off his feelings. Jason Mendoza [3] Following small roles in the parody film iSteve (2013) and the romantic comedy The To Do List (2013), she appeared as Jessica in the acclaimed comedy-drama film Other People (2016).[6]. But now it's here, with her and her friends, in the actual Good Place. Jacksonville, FL (Part 2), Chapter 34: The Worst Possible Use of Free Will, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, At Peace (Essence Fragmented and Returned to the Universe). She is best known for her starring roles as Janet in the NBC sitcom The Good Place (2016-2020) and Greta Gill in the Prime series A League of Their Own (2022-present). Jason is Filipino, and thought that Michael and everyone else in the fake Good Place was racist for thinking he was Taiwanese. During Michael's negotiations with the Bad Place group, Jason is around and helps out with random things, which leads Tahani to realize that he's not Jianyu. [24] It was released on August 13, 2021. And while we only hear the beginning of Chidi's rap about philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in season two, episode six ("The Trolley Problem"), the lyrics were given to actor William Jackson Harper in their entirety. After they get the message through Janet that Chidi and Tahani will be sent to the Bad Place in their stead, Eleanor tries to convince Jason that they should save their friends, as Janet will only bring the train back to the neighborhood if Jason agrees. I love The Good Place and the writing is genius but Jason just missed the mark for me. On "The Good Place: The Podcast," the writing team said this was a rather last-minute addition to the Bad Janet void. Whats most surprising about this revelation is the fact that Jason managed to somehow get this far in his life without accidentally killing himself beforehand (or at the very least causing himself grievous bodily harm), especially since he seems to have an almost pathological fondness for molotov cocktails. The humans bodies all dematerialized on Earth due to Janet taking them into her void to narrowly escape several Bad Place Demons in a bar near Calgary. Jason is soon unhappy with the arrangement and ends up connecting with a newly rebooted Janet, having an exchange similar to their first one where Janet helps Jason and he hugs her, prompting her to ask him why he hugged her. All his jokes are the same, they're usually just him not knowing whats going on and spouting some dumb shit. NBC comedy "The Good Place" is packed with fun Easter eggs, references, and background jokes that many people wouldn't catch upon first viewing. Soul SquadTeam Cockroach In a flashback to the day of her death, Eleanor reads horoscopes while waiting in line at the grocery store. 2016 | Maturity rating: M | 4 seasons | US TV Shows. Jason, like any good sitcom character, has a few characteristics that carry on throughout the entire series. Nick Offerman (who plays Ron) even voiced a fake Swanson Safe Company ad on an episode of "The Good Place: The Podcast," in which he said, "Do not lock yourself inside a Swanson safe with a snorkel thinking the snorkel will somehow let you breathe. Eyes After beginning his career as an improvise comedian, he has played several comedic . I think Jason is the latter. Chapter 22: Leap to Faith reveals that Jason is the only person who has noticed The Panda (A teleporting Panda is concealed in the background multiple times throughout the series. While you don't see these details in the episode, Tahani's was titled, "What I learned about moral philosophy from Claire Danes' father-in-law," while Jason's was written in three kinds of ink and titled, "By Jason Mendoza, age 27.". [19][20][21][22], In September 2018, Jacinto was cast in the Top Gun sequel Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise. The giraffe was likely the art department and props team giving a nod to the frequent mentions of giraffes on the show (almost always in reference to Tahani's height). Then, on season three, a slug-like creature from another dimension drapes itself around Tahani's neck when they enter the Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes to meet the judge. "It was just a little, little Easter egg. Schur also said Ted Danson (who plays Michael) geeked out over Garfinkle when the writer came to visit the set one day, long after his picture had become famous within the show. Having real-life spouses make cameo appearances is a long-running Mike Schur tradition. But Jason is consistently dumb, but its worse, he's practically retarded. Jason also appears to have a harder time connecting with people emotionally, seen when he didn't feel anything if Tahani and Chidi got sent to The Bad Place instead of Eleanor and himself. The following attempts always end up with Eleanor's epiphanies, except one time where Jason, to the astounded horror of Michael, is actually the one to figure it out. The Good Place (TV Series 2016-2020) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. As costume director Kirston Mann noted on "The Good Place: The Podcast," she and Schur made the conscious choice not to include any saturated reds in season one so that no unconscious associations would be made with demons or hell. The college is Schur's father's alma mater, and Michigan is the state in which Kristen Bell grew up. The brilliance of the whole thing is that somehow, despite everything, Jason manages to play this part convincingly for quite a while (it helps that he also keeps his mouth shut the whole time). After Michael reminds Jason how he died, Jason calls Janet and tells him they can't be together because he's dumb. Due to drug use, a poor education, and possibly a legitimate neurological condition, he has a low IQ, described by Michael as that of a seven-year-old (Chapter 11: Whats My Motivation). Its truly frightening to think of anyone being dimmer than Jason, but somehow they manage to pull it off. At some point, he participated in a Jalapeno Poppers Eating Contest at a restaurant called Stupid Nick's, winning by consuming over 50 jalapeo poppers in less than a minute, surprising the hospital staff. In 2016, Carden began starring as Janet, a live virtual assistant,[16][17][18] in the NBC comedy series The Good Place,[11] which also stars Kristen Bell and Ted Danson. The Good Place: Welcome, Everything is Fine. Affiliation Eleanor once watched him eat electrical tape right off the roll because he thought it was a Fruit by the Foot that had gone bad. 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According to Mann, Eleanor's clothes in the afterlife are meant to belong to the "real" Eleanor, explaining their difference from her wardrobe in flashbacks on Earth. Eleanor taunts him with the fact that she always finds out and Michael tells the humans he wants to team up with them. Most notably, he seems to have an absolute obsession with both Blake Bortles and molotov cocktails. Oh, Jason Mendoza, you sweet, beautiful idiot. The panda shows up when Vicky, the new leader of the Bad Place, is greeting both Good and Bad Place architects to the new system. [3][6] She joined Venus Rising, a musical-comedy company, and in 2001 she appeared in Seven Hearts, a musical about friends living in San Francisco. Spouse. Goofball Jason on 'The Good Place' has grown over the last season, says actor Manny Jacinto in a Los Angeles Times Envelope Emmy Contenders chat with Michael. As Chidi enters the Last Door, Jason appears behind a tree saying that he found the necklace he made for Janet, and simply waited until she returned to give it to her. Manuel Luis Jacinto is a Canadian actor born in the Philippines. Jason was actually the second of the original four humans to walk through the door. | She also wears University of Michigan shirts throughout the first season. | [28] He lives in Los Angeles. Its hard to find the balance between believability and stupid for stupids sake. The demons were celebrating a heist by drinking Snake Juice, which was featured on season three of "Parks and Recreation. The neighborhood on "The Good Place" is officially known as "Neighborhood 12358W," and the numbers 12358 are part of the beginning of the Fibonacci sequence a spiral-like mathematical formula commonly found in nature that many people believe has "mystical power.". Knowing that he didn't belong, he decided to go with the lie and reveals he was initially scared the first couple of days. [16], After small roles in series including Once Upon a Time, Supernatural and iZombie, he was cast in 2015 as triad leader Wing Lei in the Canadian spy drama The Romeo Section by Chris Haddock. But when faced with the real possibility of going to The Bad Place, he apologizes to Tahani for lying to her and for everything else he did, showing that he does know empathy. Eleanor meets Jason and he explains his actual identity. One by the name of Acid Cat harshly tells Jason he has no talent, but that he can impersonate him at a night event while the real Acid Cat performs elsewhere. | [1] Her father, Dennis William Mustafa Erokan, is a native of Istanbul, Turkey, who immigrated to California when he was a child;[2] he acted in local community theater and founded MicroTimes and the Bay Area music magazine BAM. [18] He received favourable reviews for his performance as Mendoza, an EDM-obsessed "lovable doofus" from Jacksonville, Florida, going against stereotypes of how Asian men are often portrayed in Hollywood. "It's so dumb," Schur said on the podcast. There are few moments I appreciate Jason as a character, but those few moments typically rely on another character to keep that appreciation afloat. The number 322 refers to Skull and Bones (also known as Order 322), a Yale secret society. Chidi offers to go with the couple, and he helps Jason by stopping him when he is about to say something that could give him away. While his father began going to school to be an electrician, he never finished and became a stoner, having his own son referring to him as Donkey Doug. Eleanor's whole death was caused when a bottle of Lonely Gal Margarita Mix for One fell out of her shopping cart. Michael Schurs The Good Place is, it seems, one of the best comedies to have emerged from the 2010s. Lynyrd Skynyrd High School Jason then followed Chidi, with his final line being, "Chidi, wait up!". Jason, for all of his dim-wittedness, seems to have a charm that allows him to make friends with almost no effort. During his life, for example, he seems to have had several people that were his consistent collaborators. Once they think Eleanor is leaving, Jason goes with Tahani to Eleanor and Chidi's house to say goodbye to her. Carden began her career performing improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. In 2020, Carden had a recurring role on the Quibi mystery-comedy series Mapleworth Murders. The reason behind this is never addressed.) When put together, those numbers form the beginning of the same Good Place neighborhood code: 12358W. RELATED:Which Character From The Good Place Are You Based On Your Zodiac Sign? (Part 1), Chapter 15: Everything Is Great! After saving humanity, the gang is granted the incredible privilege of finally ascending to the real Good Place, but once they get there, they start to realize that . Jason described how his time alone let him reflect, think, and meditate. Series creator Michael Schur called these numbers a "conspiracy theorist's dream" on "The Good Place: The Podcast," where he said he chose the numbers to make fans theorize over their meaning when in reality, they hint at nothing. Eleanor reassures Jason that Janet could never forget him because its literally impossible for her to forget anything, and that Jason is not the kind of person easily forgotten. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider Its extremely difficult to write a lovable idiot, in my opinion they mostly just turn out to be idiots. Dont get me wrong, the actor plays him very well, my dislike for the character isnt on him at all. 2009-present. AKA It appears again in season three, episode seven ("The Worst Possible Use of Free Will"), at the six-minute, 38-second mark. Jason became an amateur DJ, though refers to himself as "pre-successful" and went by the name Mr. Music The DJ. Jason realizes that he lost the necklace he made for Janet and worries. He is best known for his recurring role as Rafi in the FX comedy series The League, and as one of the three co-hosts of the podcast How Did This Get Made? No one ever seems to notice it. Determined to stay, she tries to become a better person. [4][5], In 1998, she graduated from San Ramon Valley High School and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from Southern Oregon University. Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, Ted Danson and more brought a little laughter to the afterlife on NBC's The Good Place. That, my friends, is a reference to Jacksonville's Duval County. After several small roles on television, his breakout role came starring as Jason Mendoza on the NBC sitcom The Good Place (2016-2020). Jason Mantzoukas is an American actor, comedian, writer and pod-caster. Full name 1989 The French was one more way for the creative team to explain why Chidi told Eleanor on the pilot episode that he was speaking French, but then later on Earth speaks English. Manny JacintoD'Arcy Carden (as Janet) He's the only person, besides Eleanor, to figure out they're in the Bad Place, which significantly distresses Michael, causing him to say "Yeah, this one hurts" (Chapter 16: Dance Dance Resolution). Occupation Hes also super hot and I would be remiss if I went through this post without acknowledging that. While Good Janet is modeled after retro air hostesses, Mann used Sandy's (Olivia Newton-John) slinky, all-black outfit from the "Grease" musical number "You're the One That I Want" as inspiration for Bad Janet. "The fact that this fan caught it was so cool to me because it's not even something we were putting on blast," Jacinto said. After several small roles on television, his breakout role came as Jason Mendoza on the NBC sitcom The Good Place (2016-2020).

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